UK petrolheads have their likelihood to make their mark on international automobile tradition because the Scorching Wheels Legends Tour returns for 2025.
Now in its eighth yr globally and fifth yr within the UK, basic automobile modifiers and restorers, race automobile builders, JDM tuners, alongside truck and customized automobile constructors can now enter the competitors for the prospect to have their car reimagined as a 1:64 scale die-cast mannequin and turn into inducted into the revered Scorching Wheels Storage of Legends.
New for 2025, the UK winner can even be flown to El Segundo, California, to expertise the final cease of the US Scorching Wheels Legends Tour.
Judged by Scorching Wheels designer Craig Callum, YouTuber Mat Armstrong and presenter Nicola Hume and in partnership with Smyths Toys Superstores, Forge Motorsport and Amassing Automobiles, Scorching Wheels will search out entries that embody authenticity, creativity and the unmistakable ‘storage spirit’.
Automobiles of all shapes, sizes and ages are eligible, together with restomods, racing vehicles, customized classics, drag racers, off-roaders and vans. Entry is easy and fast. Simply add three photographs and a brief description at hotwheelshuklegendstour.co.uk required.
Scorching Wheels information
- Based in 1968, Scorching Wheels is the primary promoting toy worldwide with over 16 vehicles offered each second
- Scorching Wheels continues to be a key affect on automobile tradition, inspiring full-scale designers, automobile builders and tuners
- Scorching Wheels is all in regards to the challenger spirit – its founder Elliot Handler embodied that spirit when he based Scorching Wheels
- Scorching Wheels’ authentic design workforce included a automobile designer and a rocket scientist. That they had a short to create a toy automobile that was cooler and carried out higher than the competitors
- The inaugural set was referred to as ‘Candy 16’ and at the moment is extremely coveted. It featured a mixture of customized vehicles and ‘rods
- So far, over eight billion have been offered
- Probably the most worthwhile Scorching Wheels automobile is claimed to be the ‘Seashore Bomb’ VW bus in pink. By no means launched to the general public, its worth has been estimated at $150,000.
- In 2025 Scorching Wheels introduced collaborations with each Formulation One and Ferrari
- Scorching Wheels is the main die-cast model within the UK, accessible at Smyths Toys, The Entertainer, Asda, Morrisons, Sainsbury’s, Tesco and unbiased toy retailers
